Spring 2019 Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club
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Cruising Fleet - Luskintyre Airfield 21 NCYC Youth Team - CYCA John Piper Regatta 23 SheSAILS in the Sydney to Gold Coast Yacht Race 27 Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club • 95 Hannell Street Wickham NSW 2293 • Ph 02 4940 8188 • www.ncyc.net.au SPRING 2019 NEWCASTLE CRUISING YACHT CLUB Unwind | Share | Laugh | Enjoy In this issue Spring 2019 journal A quarterly publication EVERY ISSUE Commodore’s Report ..................................................... 4 10 Australian Sailing 2019 Award Rear Commodore’s Report ............................................ 5 CEO Report .................................................................... 6 Marina & Assets Manager’s Report ............................... 7 Our Club......................................................................... 8 Social Highlights .......................................................... 12 Sailing Managers Report .............................................. 16 Laser Sailing ................................................................ 20 NCYC Cruising Fleet ................................................... 21 Sailing Academy .......................................................... 23 She Sails ....................................................................... 25 Borrelli Quirk Newcastle Real Estate .......................... 40 Celebrating 14 25 years ESSENTIAL INFORMATION Security Phone Numbers .............................................. 39 Coming Events ............................................................. 39 FEATURE ARTICLES Tenacity Award............................................................... 8 Nor East Bistro ............................................................. 10 Australian What are Burgees? ....................................................... 11 31 Womens Keelboat Club Boat Renaming Ceremony .................................. 11 Championships Celebrating 25 Years Anniversary ................................ 14 NEWCASTLE CRUISING YACHT CLUB Elliotts Launch & Blessing .......................................... 18 Incorporating: MARINA; LICENSED PREMISES; Luskintyre Airfield & Aviation Museum ..................... 21 LEASED BOATYARD; COMMERCIAL CENTRE NCYC Youth Team at CYCA John Piper Regatta ....... 23 Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club 95 Hannell Street, Wickham NSW 2293 SheSAILS Bubbles & Troubles ................................... 25 Ph: 02 4940 8188 Email: [email protected] Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta ........................ 31 www.ncyc.net.au Mooloolaba Yacht Club’s SheSAILS Regatta ............ 33 Opinions of contributors do not necessarily Marine Rescue ............................................................. 35 reflect those of the Board or the Club. While articles and correspondence Editor: Di Hansen are welcomed, the Editor reserves the right to decline to publish. Cover Image: NCYC Elliotts Photo by Mark Rothfield Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club Journal ~ Spring 2019 ~ PAGE 3 that Paul Hannan and Gloria Thirkell had done to put Commodore’s Message our first 25 years into print and we truly thank them from the bottom of our hearts. We also appreciate that Sharon Claydon, the Federal Member for Newcastle, was able to join us and show her support for our club. elcome to all our readers. I Whope you enjoy this Spring This event was followed by the 25-year Anniversary edition of our NCYC Journal 3255. regatta, which was the first opportunity for our members to enjoy our new Elliot 6’s. This was not only great fun Thanks to our members who have for the competitors, but also our enthusiastic supporters shared their news and taken the time who had best viewing from our cruising fleet boats close to write informative articles for us to the course, and from the Honeysuckle Hotel. and thanks also to our editor for the wonderful job she does to compile Our 25th AGM was held on the 8th of August, and I our collective input into this easy to hope the presentations of our club and sailing plans, read edition. as well as the walk through our financials, helped to demonstrate that our club is doing well, and we’re on We were very happy to be awarded Australian Sailing’s the right track. NSW Best Club, and we are a finalist for the national awards coming up in October. This is something we Thank you to all our members who completed the can all be proud of, and it’s very fitting this coincides survey, where we asked for your feedback. In general with our 25th year. Congratulations Mary Holley and terms this was very positive, with 82% thinking their Jan Howard who won the award for SheSails, to all our membership was good value, and 89% who would nominees who were finalists for awards, including Nina recommend the club to others. You have also provided Long (Instructor of the Year), Ian Humphries and Ted us with some great ideas for further improvement, and Anderson (Official of the Year), and Mark Rothfield already we have acted on many of these, including (Sports Promotion). Congratulations also to Jacqui more trolleys for the marina, evaluate / progress plans Ellis who won a Barrenjoey Pin, which is only awarded for phase 2 of the clubhouse extension, addressing the to those who have competed at the highest level for catering issues… and we will be looking to provide Australia in sailing. more member benefits! We wrapped up the formalities of our last sailing year at Wishing you safe sailing! our Presentation Night on the 13th of July. A great night was had by all, thanks to our members for supporting Steve Rae, Commodore the event, and to our management and staff who made it happen for us. A week later we enjoyed the launch of our 25-year Anniversary book and it was great to see the club Trusted to packed with members keen to celebrate and enjoy our Trusted to history together. 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Before making a decision, please consider the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) available by phoning 1300 00 2582. PAGE 4 ~ Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club Journal ~ Spring 2019 the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) available by phoning 1300 00 2582. I’d like you to reflect for a moment on sailing in Rear Commodore's Report NCYC 5 years ago. The introduction of Jack Buchan, Jacqui and recently Nina has bought a real quality to the “product” we put on the water. Their leadership, ast year at this time I reflected on your participation and the gift of time from our Lthe past 12 months, and again, volunteers is what makes us successful. We are all we’ve done a lot of good things this benefiting from Paul O’Rourke’s commercial savvy year. In my annual report at the AGM and guidance of the sailing team. All of us are quick to I spoke about how sailing all over notice what may have gone wrong – can I respectfully the club has exceeded or equalled ask you to notice everything that has gone, and does the previous year in just about all go right? categories. In fact, if we compare During the 2019 Presentation Night we attempted to the “bums on seats” to 5 years ago get the balance right between talking, eating, adult in ALL of our sailing, (conservatively) has more than beverages, and dancing. Most certainly achieved it doubled. We’ll be “tweaking” the calendar in response while others are still working on it…..you know who to feedback from the sailing survey. For example, you are! The 2018-19 Laser Glass Block Winners Twilights will move back to Wednesdays. While I’m on were Tony Van Der Stelt, Phil Ashley-Brown, Andy calendars, the Farr 40’s will be back in December and Clark, Mark Alderton, and Michael Babbage. The our focus on youth sailing will continue in the Force 24s Annual Pointscore